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Record carriers containing a user's preferred order of reproduction of items of information included therein, and apparatus for use with and/or for creating such record carriers

  • US 5,546,365 A
  • Filed: 10/31/1994
  • Issued: 08/13/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/15/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An apparatus for reproducing items of information included on a record carrier having a pre-mastered region and a user writable region which are separate from each other the user writable region including a user writable lead-in part, the apparatus comprising:

  • reproduction means for reproducing items of information included on the record carrier in accordance with a user'"'"'s preferred order of reproduction of items of information included on the record carrier; and

    read means for readingfrom the pre-mastered region pointer information which identifies a location in the user writable lead-in part in which at least a portion of a user table of contents which identifies in a particular order locations on the record carrier of items of information recorded on the record carrier by a user is located, andfrom the user writable lead-in part (a), on the basis of the pointer information, the user table of contents,and (b) user preferred order information which identifies the user'"'"'s preferred order of reproduction.

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